Research Experience
Senior Research Engineer II, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 2024 – October 2026
Senior Research Engineer I, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, June 2022 – September 2024
Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 2021 – June 2022
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, August 2016 – August 2021
Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 2015 – May 2016
Research Areas
• Active topics: Electric Power Systems Planning and Optimization, Transmission and distribution system co-simulation, Electric vehicle integration, Grid Resilience, GMD and EMP analysis and mitigation, Electric transmission network planning, Optimal power flow, Integration of renewable energy resources, Smart Grids
• Research Interests: Protective Relaying, Energy Markets, Microgrids
Research Projects (PI)
Total Research Funding as PI: $2,635,033
Total Research Funding Obtained as PI and/or Proposal Writer: $4,585,033
• GIC-Voltage Stability Tool Development, DOE Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), $200,000, 11/2026 – 09/2027
• Combined Transmission and Distribution Planning for Storage, EVs, DERs, and Small Data Centers, New Braunfels Utilities (NBU), $150,000, 09/2026 – 08/2029
• Independent Validation of SPP’s Long-Term Transmission Plan: A Third-Party Engineering Review of Transmission Need, Voltage Design, and the Cost of Delay, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), $200,000, 07/2026 – 11/2026
• Residential Energy Visibility and Economic Affordability Landscape (REVEAL), DOE Office of Electricity (OE), $300,000, 02/2026 – 06/2026
• Creating Synthetic Grid Scenarios for Zonal Autonomous Control (ZAC), GE Vernova, $200,000, 01/2026 – 12/2027
• Geomagnetic Disturbance Modeling Project, DOE CESER, $380,000, 10/2025 – 09/2026
• GMD Transformer Modeling Plan, DOE Office of Electricity (OE), $100,000, 06/2025 – 10/2026
• Using Historical Weather to Evaluate Ambient-Adjusted and Dynamic Line Ratings, CPS Energy, $120,833, 04/2025 – 03/2027
• Geomagnetic Disturbance Analysis, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), $50,000, 02/2025 – 02/2026
• Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium (Grid Resilience and Climate Change Initiative, GRACI), DOE Grid Deployment Office (GDO) (now DOE OE), $600,000, 09/2024 – 11/2025
• Transmission Study on Heavy Duty Truck Electrification for Northern California, ElectroTempo, $50,000, 06/2024 – 06/2025
• A Utility-Scale Plan for Accelerating the Deployment of Multi-Family EV Charging Infrastructure, DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), TAMU portion $150,000, $2,000,000 project total, 10/2023 – 09/2025
• Scalable Truck Charging Demand Simulation for Cost-Optimized Infrastructure Planning, DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), TAMU portion $97,200, $320,000 project total, 10/2021 – 12/2024
• Study of the Impact of Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Events on the Entergy System Associated with NERC TPL-007.1, Entergy, $37,000, 01/2023 – 12/2023
Research Projects (co-PI)
* indicates proposals written.
• *Substation Data Fusion, GE Vernova, $100,000, 01/2027 – 12/2027
• *Creating Large-Scale Realistic Synthetic Grid Models and Designing a Grid Optimization Competition, ERCOT, $250,000, 09/2025 – 08/2027
• *Evaluating Current and Future Distribution Grid Challenges for Rural Texas Cooperatives, United Cooperative Services (UCS), $100,000, 09/2025 – 08/2027
• Research, Development, and Demonstration of a Natural Hazard and Large Language Model Enhanced Electric Grid Planning Tool, DOE CESER, $2,500,000, 06/2025 – 06/2029
• *Electric Grid Resilience, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), $1,500,000, 07/2024 – 09/2026
• Enhanced Geomagnetic Disturbance Modeling, DOE CESER, $750,000, 02/2022 – 09/2025
• HEMP (High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) Transmission Consequence Model, DOE Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), $650,000, 10/2021 – 09/2026
Research Projects (researcher)
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 3, $550,000, 01/2022 – 10/2024
• PSERC S-102G: Second Stage in the Feasibility Assessment of the Synchronous Operations of the North American Eastern and Western Interconnections, $100,000, 12/2022 – 05/2024
• PSERC S-99: Incorporating Climate Impacts into Electricity System Planning Models, $64,000, 08/2022 – 09/2023
• PSERC S-91: Generating Value from Detailed, Realistic Synthetic Electric Grids, $32,000, 09/2021 – 08/2022
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 2, 08/2020 – 08/2021
• ARPA-E PERFORM (Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization, and Risk Management), $200,000, 09/2019 – 08/2021
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 1, $165,000.00, 11/2018 – 12/2019
• Lead PhD student for EPIGRIDS (Electric Power Infrastructure and Grid Representations in Interoperable Data Sets), ARPA-E GRID DATA (Generating Realistic Information for the Development of Distribution and Transmission Algorithms), $1,801,587, 09/2016 – 02/2020